The Bush Leadership, the Power of Ideas, and the War on Terror (2012)

Zusammenfassung

Foreign policy success or failure is often attributed to the role of
leadership. This volume explores the relationship between President
George W. Bush's leadership, the administration's stated belief in the
power of ideas (and the ideas of power) and its approach to the war on
terror. Drawing on the international expertise of ten American foreign
policy and security specialists, this incisive and timely book combines
theoretical perspectives on political leadership with rigorous empirical
analysis of selected aspects of the Bush administration's post 9/11
foreign policy. As a result, this book sheds considerable light not just
on the limited impact of President Bush's war on terror strategy, but
also, more importantly, on why key ideas underpinning the strategy, such
as US global primacy and pre-emptive war, largely failed to gel in a
globalizing world.